Retaliation – Don’t go there.
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It is so, so tempting, isn’t it, at 6.30 am in the morning, when the noisy party finished at 4 am, to point your own speakers at the offending party house, and play a rousing rendition of the 1812 overture, or even to give them a wake up call of several hours practice on badly played bagpipes. So, so tempting.
Well, don’t. Do not go there! Yes we know you so badly want to give them a taste of their own medicine, to see how they like it when people do the same to them as they do every week to you, but it will not work. You think they should get the message – ‘this is how nasty it is to be treated so badly by a noisy neighbour’, but their interpretation is more likely to be –‘the standard here is that loud music is okay, so next time we’ll crank up our stereo even louder’. Instead of moving them in the direction of the peace and quiet you really want, you will just make things worse, and you will also annoy your other neighbours and become, in their minds, part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Remember: Two wrongs don’t make a right
.
It is so, so tempting, isn’t it, at 6.30 am in the morning, when the noisy party finished at 4 am, to point your own speakers at the offending party house, and play a rousing rendition of the 1812 overture, or even to give them a wake up call of several hours practice on badly played bagpipes. So, so tempting.
Well, don’t. Do not go there! Yes we know you so badly want to give them a taste of their own medicine, to see how they like it when people do the same to them as they do every week to you, but it will not work. You think they should get the message – ‘this is how nasty it is to be treated so badly by a noisy neighbour’, but their interpretation is more likely to be –‘the standard here is that loud music is okay, so next time we’ll crank up our stereo even louder’. Instead of moving them in the direction of the peace and quiet you really want, you will just make things worse, and you will also annoy your other neighbours and become, in their minds, part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Remember: Two wrongs don’t make a right
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